Like the proverbial lineman whose number is only called when he commits a penalty, industry seldom gets any accolades for its efforts to produce safe food.
Escherichia coli comes in many different forms — far too many, in fact, to list here. Most are completely harmless. E. coli occurs naturally in human beings and is known to aid our digestive system. The most dangerous strains, those that cause the well-known symptomatology (including bloody diarrhea and kidney failure) in humans, produce Shiga toxins. These are referred to as Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia Coli (EHECs).
Metal detectors have long been famous at airport security checkpoints for their ability to keep unwanted objects off planes. Now X-ray scanners at airports have brought X-ray technology to the forefront of the public’s eye for their accurate ability to identify more materials that could be concealed.
Due to an unexpected sudden thaw this winter in Canada, I was faced with a deluge of water from my roof. Unfortunately I had not properly secured the down pipe to the eaves during the summer, and consequently water was pouring onto my driveway instead of being safely carried away into my neighbor’s garden.
The application and use of sanitizers in our industry is widespread, and it goes beyond the traditional application during the normal cleanup and sanitation process.
When government and industry were looking for a way to identify more rapidly the presence of the pathogenic Clostridium perfringens bacterium in food and water, Daniel Fung of Kansas State University realized he had a potential solution on his shelf.
When I was a child, my mother occasionally asked me to postulate (by smell) on the freshness of perishable foods that, in a few terrible instances, had overstayed their welcome in our refrigerator.
The times, they are not a-changin’ — they’d changed long ago in the realm of food safety and security.as such, any processors, packers or producers who have not embraced the idea that their supply chain is vulnerable are putting their product in serious danger of anchoring all the wrong kinds of headlines.